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the difference between the gamblers theory and
gentleman's practice: An old gambler came to
once, and says he: It's dead sure thing you
will lose in the end
"'Why:' asked.
because you are always betting You 60
down the street and meet friend. You match
him for $5 and win. On the next corner you
match another friend for $40 and lose. See? You
are out $5.' +"
II said that didn't quite see. ..
1.-THE point is this he explained. You will
match with anybody and you will match all the
time It's as plain as day. The percentage is
against you, because you are playing against
everybody's luck, and, as the world goes, most
fellows play highest when they know they're in
good luck 5e.e.: 5-@
Now, there may be something in that, but my
experience doesn't happen to support the theory.
1 have been matching all my life. will match
anybody for anything up to 500 any time-that's
as high as I'll go-and tell you, my boy,
as near as | can figure it, l am about even Take
the time / matched Plunger' Walton They
goaded me into that wouldn't do it again if
knew was going to win Thousand dollars a
match, ten matches, was the agreement
why, at the last throw we We're even Then
we matched ten times for $500 a match, and
beat him five times. As say that pushing
it little strong, and wouldn't repeat the exp, ri
nlent under any consideration. Here's another
instance One day Fred Lane was beating me
every time that l turned q coin. Passing by
store window saw handsome umbrella; $40
found out the cost upon inquiring. Lane
had lost his umbrella the night before. had a
good one at home Match you, Frank, to see
whether buy that umbrella for you or whether
you buy it for me- He was sure of winning, but
he lost So think there is equity in luck, ii you
take what call the even chance, and can't see
that there is anything else in matching
Pleasure? Oh, yes, / enjoy it very much-so
much so, in fact, that never think of the chance.
1t is an exhilarating excitement, win or lose and
it is all over in minute Why, in San Francisco,
when was with the old company there, used to
match while on the stage. A friend of mine used
to sit down front nearly every night. 1t was for
$40 there every time. Iwould turn coin over ON
my leg and he would indicate what he called it
by pointing either to his head or feet. Next day
went around to his place and collected On paid
him. It was entirely matter OF honor. When
he turned the coin for me to guess, he came tom
the following day and settled. Sometimes fipa
coin to determine fact, and have figured it out
that am lucky three times in five Last Sunday
night, for example, put certain figure on the
head of this old coin and another the tail, the
difference being several hundred dollars. Ifipped
the coin five times, and it came up head three
times The box office receipts were within $40 Of
the amount had put ON the head. Very often
when am undecided / turn coin for directions" :"
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1t is two story structure, Romanesqe in
treatment, with a clock tower eighty five feet
high, several gables and series Of arches sue
cessfuly grouped that while impressed with its
solidity one is also charmed with its repose
and fitness. And, quite unusual with rail
road buildings, it has an attractive view from
the train. The accompanying Illustration gives
as good an idea of its handsome exL.iir Of
brick and terra Gotta and red Akron tIle roofs
as can be obtained from a one column cut.
Its cost is $7U0, 900, and its architects are R.
H Robinson and A J. Manning, of New
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VI SofSi ol oiiheo PR1SCILLA.
$4,000 for their own convenience. The
newspaper statements in regard to such
improvements are generally larger than
the actual cost, but the newspapers
said at the time that this new ball
room of Whitneys cost him $4,000. His
New York house is said to have cost $3.50, 900.
Grasslands, as | have said, is worth 100000,
and the property at Lenox would doubtless
bring a good round sum. Then Mrs.
Whitney has her brothers home at Cleve-
land to go to. Oliver Payne keeps
bachelor quarters in the old homestead where
he and Mrs. Whitney were born, and just
n'xt door is the magnificent stone mansion of
Mrs. Wliitney's father, Senator Payne, who
has nothing in the world that he likes better
tlian his daughter Flora. Amo z the most
re'u1rka BILE features i'll these various homes
of Mrs. Whitney are the ant works which hang
upon the wall. In all the houses She has teauti-
fn i,.tures, and in her big reception room at
Washington there aft some paintings which
would do honor to almost any gallery. There
is all original of Milel's s'Sower.H hic.ll has
been engraved in SO many diff rent forms and
which was spoken of in he Ce.lturv article
OH Millet as one of his finest works. At
Grasslands some very fine photogrlp pits and
pictures hang upon the wall, and iii the
Washington city house there are several
tapestries, some of which are, believe, of
Gobelin make. FRANK G. CARPENTER
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS HOME LIFE
AT ROCHESTER, N. Y.

How He Labored to Amplify an Educa-
tion Which Was Crude, Narrow and
Observation-Disclosures to His Former
Master-His Intentions as to the Future
Especial Correspondence
ROCHESTER, April 13.
Frederick Douglass has thoughts of again
making his home in Rochester, it is said,
after his return from Europe. Long as he
lived in Washington-some twenty years
he has never ceased calling Rochester his
home, and it is here that he casts his presiden-
tial vote. 1t was in 1S4l that he located him
self and family in Rochester. He had just
returned from England, where the price of his
freedom had been paid i'll British gold-e15O
sterling, the contributions of English Abol
tionists. He had been drawn to Rochester
by the work already done there for the anti
slavery cause by Myron HolIey. Douglass
was little over 30 years old when lie settled
in Rochester with his family of a wife and
four children, a poor man, the hero of
a jealous constituency. His magnificent
physique, TALL commanding figure and most
gentlemanly bearing, made him conspicuous
parsonage in what was then city of some
$1,000 inhabitants Outside of the by no
means popular Abolitionist circle he was
lion to be gazed at rather than lionized.
There was something in his bearing in those
days as he strobe through the crowded street
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THE NEW YORK WORLD.
A Paper of Surprises-Something About
Its STAFF.
Especial Correspondence

NEW YORK, April 13
The New York World has always been a
paper of extremes. When it was started in
1869 it was so extremely religious that it re-
fused theatrical advertisements, and SO ex-
tremely Improbable that in one year it drove
its first editor, Mr.. Alexander Cummings,
into the west, into politics and into terri
torial goyernorship. During the war its ex-
treme opposition to the administration made
itsome money. Later. under the management
OF Mr. William Henry Hurlburt, it became 50
extr. niely literary that it reached about as
low an ebb in circulation and influence as ii
Is possible for a newspaper to attain and still
live, and yet at the time, in the minds of the
scholars Of this country, it was regarded AS
the best written paper in New York
When Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer came on from
st. Louis, IN 1888, and purchased it for 800,
there u ,,ething 70 buy hut
the Associated Press franchise.
There is something in the first twenty-thrae
years of the history of The World which
points moral for would be newspaper men.
It proves that q newspaper is the servant of
the public, and when the servant attempts TO
put.on airs OF moral or intellectual supeii-
ority over its master it ceases to pay.
Under Mr.. Pulitzer The World has at.
tempted to attain the extreme of enterprise.
1t has advertised, ii has boasted of. its eirru-
iation, of its advertising, and by dint OF PR
slstently footing IFS own horn it has sne-1
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@That is all right, my good man. You were
only doing your duty. No need to ask my
pardon I have no better right to abuse the
property of the road than any other passenger
would have. Always do your duty regard
less of persons. Pll keep an eye out for you"
An hour later the great railway magnate
left the train.
sDo you see that little fellow said the
brakeman to an acquaintance @That's Jay
! Could I'm solid with him anl. my fortunes
made
aThat jay GonldzH was the reply. @Not
much That's Smith Henry of Bushnell,
Ills. He looks like Jay Gould, and whenever
he travels he carries apocketful of cards with
jay Gould,s name on them. Been giving you
one,s has hea Oiiol Afa7 a 4.
Avid eyed brakeman on one OF the Wa
bash lines travels back and forth on his run,
performing his allotted duties in mechan-
ical way and possessed of one absorbing, con-
suming desire. He wants TO meet MIR. Smith
Henry, of Bushnell, once more before he dies
Chicago Tribune
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or whether he has subscribed or not-s responsible
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Q. If person orders his paper discontinued, h.
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tnue to send 1t until payment s made and collect the
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office or not.
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removing and leaving them unealled for, Is prim0
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S>~A
lis that in taking
the chance and win
ming ne fails to real
iZe that luck is the
goddess with whom
he is dallying.
Luck is spas
modic; it runs in
waves-tidal waves
some tim es. You
want to deal with it
intelligently. By
tempting it COLI
stantly i think you
can demonstrate to
your entire satisfac-
tion that at the end
of a lifetilne-taking
even chances, bear
in mind the two
sides will balance.
Nnu tn Shr,,,- rn,n
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A jaw Gould and the Brakeman.

"Can't allow that, my dear sir" said a
brakeman on one of the Wabash lines the
other day rather sharply to passenger who
was trying to crack a pecan on the end of the
car seat.
The offender, small man of quiet de-
meanor, looked up and remarked that it was
not hurting the seat; he was hammering on
cast iron.
II can't help that, sir" said the brakeman.
Suppose we let everybody crack nuts on
the car seats, don't you see it would deface
them? tell you it won't do. You'll have to
stop it."
"I'll pay for all the damage do" said the
little man, bringing his knife handle down on
the nut again.
you'll get out of the car if you don't quit;
that's what you'll do" quoth the exasperated
brakeman.
'Oh no, think not, said the little man.
"I'll try to put up with the injury to the car.
can stand it." And he handed the brake
man card inscribed thus:
GnIITn
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JOHN T. RAYMOND.

The Dead Comedians Views as to the
Matching of Coins. ...
The death of John T. Raymond-Col. Sell
iefs-has brought forth a flood of stories
about him. Most of them have something to
do with his passion for matching coins. Ray
mond used to do his matching in a thoroughly
scientific manner and sometimes he would
talk very entertainingly on the science of
chance.
'The great trouble with the ordinary NOR
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ANTLERS AND CLOCK.
hotel, and here it is that Priscilla reigns
Priscilla is the mistress of Grasslands dur
ing Mrs. Whitney's absence. She is a comely
colored girl. dressed in black, with an apron
and cap of the whitest She was for long
time the servant of all old Maryland family,
and she has lived for many years in Paris
She talks French, and she is very popular
with those members of the legations whom
Mrs Whitney entertans. Grasslands is al
ways open to visitors, and though Mrs. Whit
ney can spend but little time here herself,
Priscilla has directions to give all who come
the hospitalities of the place. There is a
lunch on the sideboard during the afternoon,
and fresh milk and wine are to be had at
all times. Priscilla takes pride in her Of
fee and she is a jewel among servants.
In this house Mrs. Whitney has shown what
can be done with old furniture. doubt not
these antique chairs and tables have cost fully
as much as fine articles of more modern make
But Mrs. Whitney bought them in a hurry
The man who is on the lookout for good
things and can afford to wait could have
picked them up for much less. 1t is said here
that her purchases of old pieces have run into
the thousands of dollars, and the most of her
treasures she has found among the antiquar-
ians of Washington Mrs. Whitney can,
afford to pay high prices, however. She has
a brother who is twelve times a millionaire,
a father whose check is good for 81, 600, 900
any day, and she has nice little fortune in
her own right Her brother who died year
or two ago left more than 81 ,000, 600, and it is
my impression that good part of it went to
her. Secretary Whitney is worth some money
in his own right, and as a New York lawyer he
had very large income The Whitneys
are about as well off for homes and comforts
as any family in the United States. They
have magnificent house in New York, which
is, l understand, more elegantly furnished
than the one in Washington, and I am told
that the elegant things in the Washington
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ASHINGTON SOcl-
ETY. again S h o W S
signs of active life.
Lent and its fasting
has passed and the
days of feasting
begun. Among
the chief features of
the next few weeks
will be the series of
receptions and din
ners which Mrs.
Secretary Whitney
will give at Grass
lands. They will
be largely attended
and will make this
old country farm
r. A. A. Al.
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city house are
merely the over
flow of the New
York mansion.
Then they have
property in Lenox:
Mass, where Mrs.
Whitney goes to
spend the summer,
and which place she
has made SO fash
ionable. Th cir
Washington house
has a ball room as
large as the aver
age city hall, and
though they merely
rented the house i
they added this bali
room at all expense
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Regular advertising payable quarterly, as due.
Transient advertising payable in advance
Special Notices are SO per cent. more than reg
ular advertisements.
Local advertising Is cents for the first insertion;
10 cents per line for each succeeding insertion;
lines counted in Sonpariel measure.
lob Work payable on delivery.
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WILLIAM S. HOLMAN.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT
DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSE.

He Sets Forth His Views in Character
istic Way-The Duties of Congress
man Much More Ariuous Than Ever
Before-The Labor Question.
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VOL. 18, NO. 43.
HOMES OF PUBLIC MEN.
\ LOOK AT GRASSLANDS AND ITS
ANTIQUE FURNITURE.
A Magnificent Clock and Old Mahogany
Hall Seat-The ParIOr and It's Fire
place-Secretary Whitney at Rest-Pris-
cilla-Mrs. Whitney's Four Homes.
TSpecial Correspoudence1
Special Correspond

WASHINGTON, April IL.
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JAY GOULD

II beg your pardon, Mr.. Could" exclaimed
the employe, humbly lifting his cap and
turning red and pale by turns.
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NEW YORK.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-27

Major O. Boyd Barrett says in his
Aberdeen Republican:
General Campbell will submit if the
strong arm OF government ever takes
him in charge. We were associated once
with lot of fanatics down south. who
swore the same thing, and we hald our
guns in our hands and used them the
best we knew how for four long years..
but we submitted all tue came, and were
in very dilapidated condition when we
did so-Just as dilapidated ae was Gem
eral Campbell's statehood movement
when it laid down at Huron short
time ago. General. you and your FAM
atioal friends will have to lie down again
in short time, when the government I
sees proper to admit Dakota as state.
Confession lie healthful in cases of this
nature and we are glad to be assured
that Major Barrett has repented and has
fallen into line with patriots whom Gem
eral Campbell ably represented during
the period Of the majors estrangement.
Bnt there is now this ditference-w while
the major sought to destroy nation
and more firmly riyet the ehackles upon
four million slaves, the general seeks to
add to the physical and political strength
of the nation and to attain the highest
degree Of liberty for half million dis
franchised sublaots OF the republic. The
major sought to accomplish his ends
through combinations unlawful--revolu-
tionary-rebellious. The general en-
deavors to reach the aim Of his efforts
through process entirely lawful-con-
stitutional-in the interest OF universal
government. There is no parallel be-
tween the two ceses and though the
| major invokes upon the head of the
general the same punishment which
fell to his portion in days
of yore, his hopes and wishes will
not be attained. Under our confedera'
tion articles it is never lawful to destroy
state, but it is always lawful to make 9
state. IL is always lawful to seS up 6
state in the outlying provinces Of the
nation when the state has complied witt
constitutional and ordinance require
ments. 1t is always lawful for a state
to create its own boundaries and the
law has been hallowed by custom since
the beginning OF the admission OF states
The general is therefore not exposing
himself to the fate which overlook tn,
major in the earlier period OF his career
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-27
A GREAT STORM.
Eorty-Eight Hours of Rain Torrents
,n the Old Bay state

Forty Eight Hours of Rain Torrents
in the Old Bay state.
Boston, July 25--The sensation Of the
day is the great storm OF the last forty
eight hours. AT great Darlington in
this stste, torrents OF rain fell Saturday.
A cloud burst at North Hillsdale, twelve
miles distant. and the water divided on
the Housatonie mountain range half
going down the Harlem road doing great
damage. Bridges were Washed away
below Chatham. Traffic was suspended
and passenger trains stopped. Acres OF
grain were destroyed. At Great Barring
ton Frank Drum, OF Claryyille, was
drowned yesterday. The water in Lake
Pleasant Id two feet higher than ever be-
fore. There was q rise in the Connects
cut river OF ten feet in onli hour and
twenty minutes. M, trains
have, passed here since morning.
A washout is reported on the Fitch
burg road north OF Irving, 100
feet long and twenty feet deep. Ali
carriage roads in this vicinity are badly
damaged and many bridges carried away
4 The only news received from the mill
Enver valley to-night is that @. E
Thayer's grist mill dam and Orton't
dam have given way. Reports from
Berkshirel county are meager. Ths
freshet has just swept away the irol
lrailroad bridge at Irving, which viii
oause atili further deiay in traffic. 4
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The Indications are that Yankton will
soon be called upon to furnish share
OF the sinews for three additional rail-
road lineB-one from the northeast,
moving eouthwestwardiy, one from the
east and one from the southeast. with 8
prospective northwest course. In these
several enterprises are the vital elements
OF o prosperous future for our city and
to meet them all and meet them with
our own interest in view will require
ell the financial stamina we can summon
in an emergency now confronting US.
Now is the critical time in our business
|cxperience--the one occasion in the life
time OF city which il grasped leads on
to easy prosperity arid.if cast aside places
that city 80 fer behind in the race that
it never again reaches the front. With
unanimity and earnest purpose VIC can
accomplish ali thsS lies before US, Our
people should not forget that theii
future is to be moulded by themselves
within the next few months.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-27
ADVICE ia Me,hars.

Arc you disturbed at night and broken
OF your rest by p sick child suffering and
crying with piIa Of cutting tssth2 Ifso,
send OF once aHd get bottle OF
Mus. WrNsnow's sooTHINa sYRuR for
Children Tsething. Its value ia lnealcu.
liable. 1t will relieve the poor little sur
ferer immediately. Depend upon it,
mothers, shere is no mistake about it
Itcures dyEentery and diarrhoea, regu-
llates the stomach and bowels, cnres
WIND colic. softsns the gums, reduces in
Gammation and gives tone and energy
10 the whole system. Mrs. Wisssoso' $
Soothing Syrup for Children 1'eethsag Is
pleasant to the taste, and is the prescrip-
lion of one Of the Oldest nurses and
best female physicians in the United
States, snd is for sale by all druggists
|shroaghout the world. Price tWcnty.
hva cents . bottle. ss5
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later dispntoh from Great Darlington
says the heaviest damage by the storm
was in the valleys of the Green and
Black Grocery fivers, the majority por-
tion OF the tiood passing down the latter
river, causing greater destruction on the
New York side. Hnlsuae was the first
victim of the overflow Bridge after
bridge was cast from its foundations
with force that it crashed staunch TIM
bers and left them dancing and plung-
ing in the .eddies until cast upon
the shore. The iron works oil
Mallory's 9 al this point became target.
The foundry of Concern ON the side OF
Black Grocery river however, withstood
the shock and managed to hold together,
yet Its foundatiops were badly damaged
as was also large amount OF valuable
machinery and stock Half q dozen
employees who worked braveIy to save
part of the contents had narrow escape
with their lives, they being submerged
almost to their necks at one time. Big
bridges spanned the stream at this point
in front OF the foundry, and after vigor-
ously withstanding the force arrayed
against it, began to crumbIe at it's east
ern end where the water surged over
opa CuS uuNOE AAuc5ipC sbou0 NWOEbs
The abutment was completely wiped
out and the sxty-foot bridge, which
was worth some $4,000 elso went.
Twenty-three bridges at least have
be en- destroyed and the total lose is
estimated at over $500 600. There is q
strange old man living on Bear lake in
New Brunswick, three days journey
through the woods frsm Vanceborough,
Me-, who claims TO have been told by q
spirit that there is shortly to be second
great flood in which he is to- play the
part of Noah. He has prepared himself
an ark which is moored to his little log
cabin and is ready to start ON sixty
days sail at moments notice. The
name Of the prospective Noah is John
Hobson, and IN his early days be lived
OF Amity. Me. The Indians about Bear
lake call him Sagonita, which literally
translated means Cracked on the big
esnoe.' As eight inches of rain has fallen
during the past forty eight hours. his
neighbors are treating the old man we'll,